Patient articles
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Former Pennsylvania nurse sentenced to life for killing three patients
Heather Pressdee admitted to intentionally injecting excessive doses of insulin into 22 patients across the Pittsburgh areaA former Pennsylvania nurse has been sentenced to life imprisonment after admitting she intentionally injected nearly two dozen of her patients with excessive doses of insulin, killing three of them.Heather Pressdee was sentenced on Thursday in a Butler county state courthouse near Pittsburgh, where nearly 40 of her victims’ family members spoke about how her crimes upended...
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including one therapist who took patient to get matching TATTOOS
Women on social media are sharing their therapy horror stories, from practitioners who fall asleep in sessions, victim blame their clients or tell them to simply 'get over' their problems.
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What Florida’s abortion ban means for the South, traveling patients
By Christopher O’Donnell, Tampa Bay Times This article was originally published in KFF Health News. Monica Kelly was thrilled to learn she was expecting her second child. The Tennessee mother was around 13 weeks pregnant when, according to a lawsuit filed against the state of Tennessee, doctors gave her the devastating news that her baby had Patau syndrome. The genetic disorder causes serious developmental defects and often results in miscarriage,...